That's a typical weekend in the US for a population the size of Chicago, nothing out of the ordinary for US fun culture.

The abhorrent level of crime is spread across the country, largely perpetuated by those who refuse to consider gun control. There were 16,576 gun deaths in the US in 2024, excluding suicides. 45 every day. About a third of those are children.

Chicago is close to 1% of the population of the US. Looking at three days, seeing a cluster of shootings, and not having the stats or basic business experience to understand the basic Possion distribution of events, is malpractice.

Whoever told you to be upset at Chicago, but not about the mass gun violence every day, tricked you. You got fooled.

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silisili 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Chicago has nearly 4x the murder rate and 2x the violent crime rate compared to the US at large.

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kittoes 5 days ago | parent [-]

Yet it isn't even in the top 20 cities for murder, nor the top 50 for overall crime. The only reason so many are focusing specifically on Chicago is because their cult leader told them to.

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blindriver 5 days ago | parent [-]

Chicago is the 3rd largest city in the US and has the highest total number of murders in the US. Why does this not matter to you?

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queenkjuul 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Total numbers are meaningless. Per capita is what counts. I'm certain you know this.

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blindriver 5 days ago | parent [-]

600 people were murdered in Chicago. Absolute numbers matter. How can you say that it doesn’t matter?

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		Also what year were 600 people murdered? Not last year and certainly not this year either. 22,830 people were like in the US as a whole. Terrifying! Why don't you care?
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		How many were murdered in the US? Certainly far more I also didn't say it didn't matter.

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kittoes 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I made no such claim, merely pointed out the absurdity of focusing so much on Chicago while completely ignoring other places like Dayton. How come you're flat out ignoring the TWENTY other cities with a higher murder rate? It's completely disingenuous of you to focus on total murders when one surely understands that total population ultimately drives that value.

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blindriver 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> That's a typical weekend in the US for a population the size of Chicago, nothing out of the ordinary for US fun culture.

This is an outright lie. Why don't you care about the lives being lost in Chicago?

Chicago has double the rate of homicide relative to LA, double the amount of rapes and 50% more robberies.

Why are you okay with just letting Chicago live in such high levels of violence by trying to pooh pooh away the facts?

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